To:THE NARROW COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS[1]

Written:Written on August 31, 1920Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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NarrowCouncil:

Itis essential to centralise and combine aid, distributing
itcorrectly.

[1]Writtenon a copy of a telegram from V. M. Sverdlov, Deputy
People’s Commissar for Railways, sent on August 27, 1920, from
Saratov, requesting that textiles, footwear and household
articles be issued for 345 families of railwaymen, who had been
the victims of a fire. Owing to the absence of clothing, wrote
Sverdlov, they could not go to work, and this threatened an
interruption in railway traffic.